A day after a disappointing third-place finish in the Ivy League championship, the Harvard women's golf team received some consolation this morning in the form of the announcement of the league's individual awards.
The Crimson swept the two main honors, as sophomore Christine Cho was named Ivy League Player of the Year, while freshman Katie Sylvan was named the Rookie of the Year based on voting by the league’s seven head coaches.
Freshman Jennifer VanderMeulen and the women's lacrosse team came up just short of a tournament bid.
Following yesterday’s 18-10 trouncing of Columbia, the Harvard women’s lacrosse team had done all it could do for itself to earn one of four playoff berths in the Ivy League Tournament.
After getting the job done in New York, the Crimson’s fate now lay in the hands of two conference rivals. If No. 6 Penn and No. 7 Dartmouth came away with victories the next day, Harvard would sneak into the fourth spot.
Junior Owen Thomas, one of the University of Pennsylvania’s recently-elected football captains, was found dead in his off-campus apartment around 2 p.m. this afternoon.
The Allentown, Pa. native passed away from unknown causes, but the Daily Pennsylvanian reports that no foul play is suspected. Thomas, a second-team All Ivy selection at defensive end this past season, recorded a team-high six sacks—good for second in the league—and helped lead the Quakers' defensive unit to No. 1 in the nation in total defense and scoring defense, according to the Penn Athletics website.
Thomas, whose older brother Matt played football for the Quakers and graduated in 2002, was enrolled at Wharton.
While the week belonged to the ladies of the distance medley team—juniors co-captain Thea Lee and Claire Richardson and freshmen Carlyle Davis and Melissa Bellin—the weekend belonged to Harvard co-captain Jack Brady.
On Friday, the third day of competition for the Crimson men and women’s track and field teams at Penn Relays, Brady placed third in the college men’s eastern championship shot put event.
For Harvard athletics, yesterday was all about ending droughts. The No. 2 men’s varsity lightweight crew and the men’s lacrosse team each tallied victories against Navy and Princeton, respectively, to bring the end of a winning era for these two dominant opponents.
